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Images => Deep Sky Images => Topic started by: MikeM on April 15, 2012, 09:25:46 pm

Title: M106
Post by: MikeM on April 15, 2012, 09:25:46 pm

I started this on Friday night from my back yard because I wanted to work on some guiding issues I had when using a long focal length, 8RC. This time even though it appeared that the X&Y graphs were jumping around (much more than when using my FSQ) I believe I've gotten some decent results.
This is 9x10min subs only in Lum using an AT8RC, ATFF and the 383L+ on a G11 mount guided with the Atik OAG.
I plan on going back and getting more LUM and RGB.

Comments always welcome.

Title: Re: M106
Post by: bwa on April 15, 2012, 10:50:59 pm

Great start on the LRGB image!

bwa

Title: Re: M106
Post by: kevinsmithsky on April 18, 2012, 09:23:26 am

Yeah!its really a great start for you!

Title: Re: M106
Post by: Lex on April 18, 2012, 06:47:58 pm

Nice one! Keep us in the loop withthe color version  8)

How many pixels did the graph jump around? I worry about this bloody all the times but infact even if it jumps up to 3 pixels, there is no need to worry  :D

Well done!

Best

Title: Re: M106
Post by: MikeM on April 19, 2012, 02:20:29 am

Thanks for the look bwa, Kevin & Lex. I use Maxim to image and guide and am used to seeing no more than +- .50 pixel max movement with my FSQ. But with the 8RC
it was more in the neighborhood of +-1-2 pixels which could have been caused by the seeing through a larger scope I would guess. I finally settled on 3 sec exposures
and an 8 aggressiveness in X & Y. Seemed to have worked well.